innovation, the process of creating a new idea, innovation was made to change the world, just look what nikola tesla did to the world. he didnt just create AC current, he brighted the entire world with light.

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian electrical engineer, he in my opinion was one of the greatest innovators of all time. without him the world wouldn't be the same. his inventions are what make him the man he is today, ac current for example. alternating current is used everywhere as you are reading this you are using AC current in your computer or phone. fascinating eh? it gets better. one of his inventions involved wireless electricity, the Tesla coil, a mechanical marvel, a was to create power from nothing, i could go into detail on how a tesla coil works but that would take hours to explain and frankly i dont think anyone has enough time to sit down and listen.

nikola tesla didnt do this for money, glory, fame, infact when he came to the US all he had was clothes that could fit in his small bag. the reason where because he was interested in electricity. simple as that. just like i am interested in cooking. he believed he could improve the studies of electricty and expand the field, and so he did.

so for this blog we were supposed to choose a type of diet, so i went for the most common diet of them all vegetarianism. now as some people know i cannot eat just veggies on a daily basis i need to have meat in my body its just a genetic or mental thing i suppose, but i puffed up my chest and ate just veggies for a whole 4 days, it was all i could do, my mental brain could not process just veggies. plus the inner Serbian kicked in a decided that i was no man if i ate just veggies. luckily my mother and I went shopping and we came back with a ton of veggies and a lot of meat. just what i needed pounds of meat in front of me but i had to eat veggies the temptation was killing me. so for breakfast i had toast, peanut butter and apricot jam. that was fine, i can manage this i said, but then came dinner time(i barely have lunch anymore because of time management and i just cant eat around lunch time unless im desperate) i grilled some asparagus, green peppers, and pineapple weird combo but it worked none the less. the next few days were pretty much the same. pretty much grilled things for dinner nothing exciting. eventually my mother made breaded chicken,mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus. at that point i gave up and ate the crap out of the chicken and honestly it felt right to eat meat, i didn't feel like myself for the few days. overall i could not be be a vegetarian, like i said before i dont feel like myself when i eat no meat, that is pretty much my intake of protein, sometimes its nuts buts other than that its about. also its a mental thing too, i have been eating meat for the majority of my life, and now i have to stop to become healthy? but i can be healthy with eating meat too. right?

so here we are 2015, couldn't do any other blogs due to family issues and just life not being at its finest, but none the less i will try to do a blog for the sake of these assignments starting with an interview if you can call it that with a farmer who so happens to be my uncle.

my uncle George (will not say last name due to confidentiality) started to farm a long time ago, he decided to make a little farm for his family and the people in his neighborhood. you might be asking yourself his neighborhood? yes, my uncle lives in Serbia and provides veggies, chickens, pigs and rabbits, to the people he has known for well forever. the reason he became a farmer was because he thought i would be cheaper to make a sutible farm for himself then to go out and buy pieces of chicken, and in some cases its true, in fact he is making a good amount of money because of farming. a local market that is near the neighborhood has asked him to provide, chickens and pigs. my uncle enjoys doing this and to him its not even hard work, even though him and my aunt are retired. i remember when i was 12 or 13 when i visited them in Serbia, i would always wake up to the stupid rooster every morning, my god how i hated that thing. but none the less we woke up tended to the chickens, the pigs and the cute cuddly rabbits, the veggies were just looked after and never touched for a while, at the time it was raining a lot so no need to water the plants. honest to god i wish i had enough land to create a little farm like that, having my own supply of food would be amazing. i mean i have a little garden that i tend to here in Hamilton, but that looks like crap compared to the farm in Serbia. if only we could do that. if only.

i wish i could find pictures of me when i was little and tending the farm but sadly i coulnt find anything.

so a while back i decided to create ginger beer, i thought that making ginger beer meant making something like Root beer or something along those lines. so i went on Google and looked up some recipes on making this stuff. i stumbled across this website http://www.instructables.com/id/Ginger-Beer-Alcoholic-Version/as you can see it clearly says alcoholic version, i realized this a few days into the fermentation and just stuck to it. the recipe called for: about 600ml water, Ginger powder, Lemon juice, sugar, yeast, and 10 raisins. the process is to combine everything and wait pretty much. so that's what i did, i got myself a large jar and mixed everything together, now the fermentation begins, everyday for about one week i had to feed the beer with 2 teaspoons of ginger powder and four teaspoons of sugar. once that was complete i had to strain out all the ginger and sugar left at the bottom of the jar. i took one gulp of my product and though it was alright. my friends told me that ginger beer is a very,very strong ginger ale and they were right.

So this week my family and i tried out a new fruit called granadilla. so we went to Fortinos to pick this up because it was the closest food store to my house and they have a wide variety of fruits that I would like to try out in the future. the reason why I chose this fruit was because they had no dragon fruit, it sucked that they did not have it but none the less their are plenty more fish in the sea so my sister and I decided on Granadilla or persimmons vanilla, we chose the granadilla. before we get to my impressions I want to talk about the background of this fruit, so it is a type of passion fruit that comes from south america (specifically Columbia or Mexico) it is very common in south america however it is sold in many different countries like Australia,Venezuela and of course Canada. These little buggers are pretty expensive for what we saw, one each was for 2.50 for a fruit that is the size of a lemon that's a bit costly (in my opinion). now the fun part, my impressions of the fruit. honestly I thought it was going to suck but like the old saying don't judge a book by its cover, it tasted really good. the taste was a very slimy but sweet flavour, which I personally like. the seeds inside were very much like the seeds in a pomegranate very crunchy. So if I were to incorporate in this with something what would it be. i probably wouldn't cook it just because i want to keep the sweetness of the jelly itself, so i would add this on top of a pinapple cake for garnish or maybe add only the jelly inside a fruit muffin. something to do with dessert is what i would use.

so recently i decided to create something ambitious. Beef Wellington. it was very interesting to make. normally with beef i would make steaks or beef stew and so on so forth. i wanted to try and make this because it was something that i have been thinking about making for a while and now that i have done it i can say that it was well worth the time. So how did it taste? i made the fillet of beef medium to well done so i expected alot of chewing and that's what exactly happened, personally i don't like to chew on one piece of beef for 5 minutes, but my family does so i went by their order. back to the taste, it was a blend of many things, from the salt and pepper to the horseradish. it tasted very much like beef but with the puff pastry and the duxelle it was astonishing literally like my grandmother just cook up some fresh home-made stew. the smell of the Wellington was absolutely amazing, you can smell the beef miles away from the duxelle and the horseradish once again. the overall experience was incredible and astonishing. definitely will make this again maybe for Christmas or thanksgiving. maybe i should make more ambiguous things more often

for those interested in making this, famous chef Gordon Ramsay has a very good instructional video on how to make a beef Wellington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uXIPhxL5XA. below is what a wellington looks like. ( this picture was taken from google images not my original work)

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